Space.com:
ATK's Space Components Division received a $6.4 million
contract from NASA's Space Technology Program to develop a new
prototype solar array for use on
spacecraft. The 18-month contract for the MegaFlex solar array
will build on ATK's smaller UltraFlex arrays. The UltraFlex
arrays are on NASA's Phoenix Mars lander, and part of Orbital
Science's Cygnus capsule and Lockheed Martin's Orion capsule.
The MegaFlex array is planned to be roughly 10 m across, and
will provide at least 350 kW of power for solar-electric
propulsion systems. In the first phase of the program, ATK
hopes to build and test hardware so that in phase two, it can
produce a flight demonstration version.
